Kyle Nowak

🏫 Since the start of the Covid pandemic, teachers and other school personnel across America have reported an increase in physical violence committed against them by students.

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“Seek not the good in external things; seek it in yourselves.”

–Epictetus (55 A.D. – 135 A.D.)

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, America’s current demographic trends will be ___ for the country.

What you can look forward to this upcoming week...

📉👶 Since 1972, the US fertility rate (aka the avg number of children per woman) has been at or below the level needed to maintain our current population in the long term – and 2022 was no different, per new CDC data.

🌎 About 9% of adults around the world identify as LGBTQ per a new global survey, Sweden is on the verge of becoming the first “smoke-free” European country, and more.

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"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have."

–Norman Vincent Peale (1898-1993)

🌎 A priceless 16th-century painting stolen by Nazi Germany in WWII has been returned to Poland, India is eliminating all public school lessons on evolution and the periodic table, and more.

🏛️🛸 A newly-formed NASA committee in charge of investigating reports of unidentified aerial phenomena, commonly known as UFOs, held its first public hearing yesterday.

☝️ You’re looking at the world’s first x-ray of a single atom, detailed in a peer-reviewed study published yesterday in Nature; researchers said their breakthrough will allow material scientists to develop better hardware for tech like smartphones, laptops, and hospital equipment. 

“There is little success where there is little laughter.”

–Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919)

This weekly section delivers the most outlandish, off-the-wall, and occasionally laugh-out-loud news stories of the week, as well as some hilarious or… curious synchronicities crowdsourced from around the world.

❓ Our question to you: In your opinion, what’s the No. 1 reason behind the recent decline in US college enrollment?

🎓 This spring, the number of US students attending college across all sectors fell for the tenth consecutive year, per a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.

🌎 Moscow was attacked by drones yesterday morning, the Gloucester Cheese Roll (where a group of contestants chasing after a wheel of cheese as it rolls down a steep hill) took place, and more.

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“Wrong turns are as important as right turns. More important, sometimes.”

–Richard Bach (b. 1936)

🌎 A beluga whale previously suspected of spying for Russia resurfaced near Sweden, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was re-elected for an unprecedented third term, and more.